Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

What discord should we bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered! Then we should govern the world, and not God. And do you think we should govern it better?

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

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To be strong is to be happy!

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White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky.

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

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The spirit-world around this world of sense Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere Wafts through these earthly mists and vapours dense A vital breath of more ethereal air.

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Life is the gift of God, and is divine.

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From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

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Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow.

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Let us, then, be what we are; speak what we think; and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth.

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A town that boasts inhabitants like me Can have no lack of good society.

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The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.

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It is autumn; not without But within me is the cold. Youth and spring are all about; It is I that have grown old.

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So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.

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O thou child of many prayers! Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares! Care and age come unawares!

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Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies.

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And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.

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If we could read the secret history of our enemies.

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Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air.

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